Elizabeth Berg Quotes

It feels like my books come true. I write these things, and then they kind of end up happening. I wasn't divorced, for example, when I wrote a book about divorce.

Elizabeth Berg

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 2, 1948

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The more Strategic Work you do, the more effective, productive, and joyful the Tactical Work becomes.

Michael Gerber

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The citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse by boorish expressions of doubt.

John Ralston Saul

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I not only loved studying theater, I loved being a theater major. It gave me an excuse to brood, to grow a beard, to wear black 'at' people. I didn't just want to play Hamlet, I wanted to be Hamlet.

Stephen Colbert

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Being a leader requires being confident enough in your own decisions and those of your team to own them when they fail. The very best leaders take the blame but share the credit.

Travis Bradberry

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You mustn't take any award so seriously.

Tony Randall

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All I want, and I think all any parent with a semblance of a moral psychology wants, is for my kid to have his own experience, uninhibited.

Robert Downey, Jr.

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If I'm writing a furiously angry scene, I have to consciously snap out of it when I shut down the computer, or I find myself growling at my family.

Ruth Ware

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As a director, I get to have a much broader creative expression than as an actress.

Mary Stuart Masterson

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Now that digital lifestyle devices, tablets, wireless phones, and other Internet appliances are beginning to come of age, we need to worry about presenting our content to these devices so that it is optimized for their display capabilities.

Mike Davidson

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I am ambidextrous. I write with my right hand but played basketball in high school with my left.

Julia Stiles

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It's a joy to listen to someone at the top of their craft.

Johnny Mathis

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Movies are terrifically optimistic enterprises.

Christopher Walken

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